What Is Text Wrangler?
TextWrangler is a text-editing software application developed by Bare Bones Software for the Mac OS X operating system. Originally, TextWrangler was designed as a commercial product, but at the time of publication it is available as a freeware alternative to the company’s flagship software application, BBEdit, which offers a wider variety of text-editing options.
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Basics
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Prior to TextWrangler, Bare Bones’ freeware version of BBEdit was BBEdit Lite. Beginning with TextWrangler 2.0, however, BBEdit Lite was replaced. TextWrangler is designed to deal with plain text content only and does not provide the formatting features offered by word processing programs such as Microsoft Word. In spite of its lack of text formatting capability, TextWrangler offers a variety of text-editing features, including file comparison, syntax highlighting and find and replace functionality.
Text-Editing Features
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In addition to its ability to compare files and highlight syntax and find and replace text, TextWrangler offers a variety of text-editing features, such as split editing windows, hard or soft text wrapping and auto-indent. The software also comes with several built-in text transformations, including change case, zap gremlins and entab/detab. You can also open and save text files using Unix, Microsoft or Mac line-ending formats. The program also gives users syntax coloring and function navigation capability for a variety of programming codes, including Object Pascal, Java and Python.
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System Requirements
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Released on January 24, 2011, TextWrangler 3.5.3 is the latest version at the time of this writing and requires 13MB of available hard drive space. It is compatible with Mac OS X 10.5 or newer operating systems, although Mac OS X 10.5.8 or 10.6.7 or newer are recommended. You must also have Apple’s Universal application installed on your computer to run TextWrangler. This application allows you to run the program on your Mac, whether it’s running an Intel or Power Mac processor. The Universal application is available for download from Apple.
Miscellaneous
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TextWrangler can save and read files written in an assortment of programming languages, including Unicode, Latin-1 and ASCII. The application is used primarily by computer programmers, website developers and others who write and read source code extensively. You can open files from and save files to remote FTP servers using the program. TextWrangler is only available as a download and is available from Bare Bones’ website and other authorized websites, such as CNET Downloads. The company recommends you check the TextWrangler home page frequently for updated versions of the application.
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